AllThingsD » Behzad http://allthingsd.com Sat, 26 May 2012 02:18:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 One Iranian’s Internet Experience http://allthingsd.com/20090617/one-iranian%e2%80%99s-internet-experience/ http://allthingsd.com/20090617/one-iranian%e2%80%99s-internet-experience/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:49:04 +0000 Geoffrey A. Fowler http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=12708 Social networking services like Facebook and Twitter have played a remarkable role in breaking the Iranian government’s grip on information, both before and after last Friday’s election. But lately, access to the Internet in Iran has slowed to a crawl, demonstrating considerable technical sophistication on the part of Iranian authorities.

One Tehran resident, who asked to only be identified by his first name Behzad, said in a phone interview that his home broadband connection is now useless. Simply loading Google’s (GOOG) home page, he said, takes up to a minute.

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